2) Ed on Rent-a-Center v. Jackson. I love his intro to the case that could serve as a placeholder for the whole court: “the Court has made another incredibly tone-deaf (and 5-4) decision in favor of, well, not you.”

5) I’m happy to learn that none the dispersants being used by BP “displayed biologically significant endocrine disrupting activity” in the first of several rounds of testing. Good news where you can get it. Kate Sheppard has more.